In 2020 I gained a First Class Batchelor of Science degree in International Development and the Environment from the University of East Anglia. The modules I studied during my degree including climate change and sustainable development made me realize the environmental risks faced by Lowestoft and how building resilient communities is crucial to being able to withstand the challenges the future holds for our children and for future generations.

My vision for Lowestoft is a thriving, attractive town, with clean streets, waterways and beaches and green spaces to provide safe areas for communities and wildlife to flourish and I will work hard to achieve that goal.

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A local business owner, he has been connected to Woodbridge for over a decade. “The outstanding beauty of this area made Woodbridge an easy choice where to start where to start our family,” he says. After running an arts charity for eleven years in London, Stephen also helped start the UK edition of leading architects’ publication Passive House Plus, and worked to incentivise low energy building in the UK.

Stephen says: “I’ve really enjoyed acclimatising to the council and feel our administration has brought about a fresh enthusiasm and work ethic. For me it’s great to see how various initiatives overlap, exploring how we can take advantage of opportunities for a more joined up way of working. Some of my key focuses are on better energy efficiency in new builds as well as reducing the embodied carbon in construction materials. I’m also pushing for our green infrastructure to be connected via green corridors which we can achieve via farm clusters, rewilding and well-designed active travel routes. I’m passionate about exploring local building systems which can feed into our quest for more social housing. I want to see East Suffolk become a leading provider in retrofitting solutions and cost-effective delivery of highly energy efficient, low embodied carbon buildings that we can also provide to the private market. This will cut to the core of solving so many more issues than releasing carbon into the atmosphere. These buildings will be healthier to be in, lift people out of fuel poverty and bolster our local economy.

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I am deputy cabinet member for the Environment, supporting Rachel Smith-Lyte with that portfolio, and Chair of the Community Partnership for all the parishes in this ward including Wickham Market, Framlingham, Kelsale and Yoxford. I work with the Council’s brilliant officers to deliver future projects that will benefit all our residents, including community fridges and cooking, rural transport and youth events. One example already launched is Wild About Wickham, a community initiative aimed at getting people involved with helping nature recovery and doing their bit for biodiversity.

I have been very busy helping flood victims across the ward and am continuing to do so. This also includes working with communities to become more resilient and also more prepared for future emergencies.

I join my fellow Green and coalition councillors in opposing the damaging energy projects which will industrialise our beautiful coastline and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and bring dangerous and polluting heavy traffic on to our rural roads and through the quiet villages of my ward.

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Tim grew up in East Anglia and worked in London for sixteen years in the creative industries as a business owner and arts producer. He is an AGILE project manager and qualified to foundation level with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountancy.

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A long-time activist with Greenpeace and later Extinction Rebellion, she realised that with the looming climate and biodiversity crisis, she needed to get involved politically. She joined the Green Party in 2011 and has stood three times in local elections and in the 2015 and 2019 General Elections gaining 6% of the vote share thus retaining the Party’s deposit for the first time in the area. In May 2019 she secured her first seat – on East Suffolk Council – the first Green to be elected in the old Suffolk Coastal district.

She is passionate about protecting the area’s natural environment from inappropriate development and the links between sustainable transport and improved air quality. Her other interests include localism and ‘passiv haus’ affordable housing as part of a post-growth society.

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I’ve had a lifelong passion for the natural world and have worked in both agriculture and the environment in the UK, Asia and right across Africa. My strong sense is that politicians simply have no choice but to work in a more collegiate way (from all political persuasions) to face the climate crisis that we face, and I’ve seen first-hand the havoc that climate change is causing. We must push back and defeat the ongoing ‘tragedy of the commons’ and foster far more community ownership of our living environment, for both ourselves and future generations.

Framlingham has experienced two emergencies in the past three years, covid and flooding. Both have severely impacted my town in negative but also surprisingly positive ways. In March 2020, in the early days of covid, my neighbours formed a WhatsApp group that operates to this day. This, in my view, is a great example of how communities can get back together and help each other out.

Framlingham no longer has a physical bank, and our post office was badly damaged in the recent flooding. Losing our critical community infrastructure is very traumatic for residents. Framlingham Town Council has established a Flood Resilience working group that has met and now developed an Emergency Response Plan. It has also funded a local expert to do a flood assessment and hosted a well-attended public meeting to discuss this.

I’m helping Thomas Mills and Framlingham College Eco Councils to establish wildflower gardens, working with teachers and students. In response to Framlingham ward residents, I have been pressing Suffolk County Council to deal with potholes and remove roadkill more quickly. It’s all in a very busy day’s work.

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Twice I stood in local elections as a Green before success in 2023. During a long career in science journalism, I’ve written about many promising alternative energy technologies only to see them flounder from lack of funding.

The success of solar and wind energy shows what a little government funding can do to get technologies off the ground. If a tiny fraction of what the fossil fuel industry pays its shareholders were diverted to energy research, we would be in a much better position to tackle the climate crisis with the help of working tidal and wave energy, grid storage, superconducting transmission lines, and even solar power stations in space (yes, I’m serious).

As a regular writer about astronomy, I wonder at the fact that, despite decades of trying, we have not found any signs of life elsewhere in the universe. It suggests that habitable planets may be rare.We should treat ours with more care and respect.

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I became a councillor to try and build a more environmentally sustainable and caring society. Halesworth Division is large and covers a rural area in the East of Suffolk. It encompasses Blyford, Brampton with Stoven, Frostenden, Halesworth, Holton, Sotherton, Spexhall, Uggeshall, Wangford with Henham, Westhall, Wissett and Wrentham.

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